Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions."Leopoldo Lugones
"Philosophy teaches us to examine our assumptions."Leopoldo Lugones
"I'm not interested in what people do, but in what they think about what they do."Julio Cortázar
"What we call coincidence is sometimes the presence of the extraordinary."Julio Cortázar
"In every person lies an entire universe."Julio Cortázar
"We are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves."Julio Cortázar
"The exile learns that home is not a place, but a longing."Luis Cernuda
"The modern world demands efficiency but poets demand authenticity."Luis Cernuda
"We are all metaphysical beings trapped in physical bodies, searching for meaning in an indifferent universe."Ernesto Sabato
"We create meaning in a world that has none."Ernesto Sabato
"We are all prisoners of our own perspectives."Ernesto Sabato
"Philosophy is the attempt to understand what cannot be understood."Ernesto Sabato
"Philosophy is the love of wisdom."Juan Ramón Jiménez
"Philosophy asks the questions that matter most."Juan Ramón Jiménez
"Philosophy is the art of asking the questions nobody dares voice"Rafael Alberti
"Philosophy begins with wonder and ends with acceptance"Rafael Alberti
"Ideologies are a wonderful thing because they pass."Federico García Lorca
"Consciousness is the only thing that is truly private."Federico García Lorca
"The night contains the day."Federico García Lorca
"The universe is within us."Federico García Lorca
"Philosophy begins where fear ends."Leopoldo Lugones
"In the margins of society, we often find the greatest truths."Leopoldo Lugones
"Philosophy begins with wonder and ends with peace."Leopoldo Lugones
"We are our own demons, we expel ourselves from paradise."Julio Cortázar
"Chaos is only a form of order waiting to be deciphered."Julio Cortázar
"The price of clarity is that some things must remain mysterious."Julio Cortázar
"The philosopher is one who refuses to accept life as given."Julio Cortázar
"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."Jorge Luis Borges
"There is a concept that corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited domain is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."Jorge Luis Borges
"Conventional optimism is odious; let us be pessimists."Jorge Luis Borges